thu >> today on christian world news christians are finding it more and more difficult to gather for worship. an exclusive report from inside indonesia. miracle in indonesi 33 trapped miners found alive at 19 days. it is a direct answer to their prayers. plus millions in pakistanface malnutrion, dehydration and disease. the suffering is worse than anyone can imagine. a growing churchfaces harsh

persecution can in indonesia. welcome to this week es addition of christian world news wendy griffith is on aassignment. the ground zero mosq captured the world's attention. it shouldn't be built 2 blocks from a spot where 3,000 people were killed. others say what about freedom of religion? they are findinit more difficult to gather for worship. my colleague gary lane from indonesia. >> the intent is the same, destroy christianity ancreate an islamistate throughout indonesia. >> ten years have passed since the worst of jihad.

today believers are still suffering, especially that convert from islam to christianity. also churches are being shut down. the islamic defenders front, they push for the arrest of church officials and evangelist. the filadelfia batak christian protestant church gathered at the local mosque and tried to prevent the christians from meeting. pastor palty says the mob grew to about 1500. >> some through stones and shouting god is great and calling us infidels. some shouted burn the church, close itown. >> local officials closed the

church last january. since then they have worshipped outside and have placed dead rats and broken glass. the indonesia constitution guaranes religious liberty. christians expernce less than the muslim majorit mosques are being built but few new churches are allowed for a growing christian population. what about former muslims that embrace ristianity in the world's nation. just ask these people, we are hiding their identitiesbecause each have suffered prosecution from family members or government officials. after a bible discovered in his prison cell he was torturedand stand naked while balancing a bible on his head. when the bible fell he was

torturedagain and a page of the bible shoved into his mouth. he was then sent without clothes to a small isolatn cell where he had to endur mosquito bites and frigid temperatures. >> i cried out to the lord, please god, help me by returning my clothes. >> a prison guard returnedhis clothes the next day. his faith remains strong. when he was released the warden asked if he was a christian or muslim >> i told him i was a muslim. as i live here i am convinced i am a christian. >> after she became a christian, she endured bu tral beatings from her hus husband in front of her children.

>> he told me your religion will take you to hell so you will feel the fire, how about you feel this. >> lydia's husband flicked a hot ash into her right eye. attacks continued and her husband forced her and the children out of the house. the voice of martyrs helped her. muslim family members kicked cornell yous out of their house. he escaped deatwhen his cousin tried to run over him with a motorcycle. he told me i was an infadel and never phone him agai >> these new believers and indonesian church continue to grow in faith and scope despite

the militant attempts to destroy the movement. >> believers seldom came to church. they got incentive to come to church and pray and gather together in unity. my congregation has a commitment to do the service because the church is not a building. the church is the believers. >> they are asking god and government to create a more tolerant ciety one where they are better protected from extremist violence. they'll continue to gather in apartments, sml house churches and even in the streets wherever they can despitthe risks. gary lane, cbn news, jakarta. thank you, gary, an accident trapped 33 miners in chile, local christians responded in faith. they helped set up prayer sites to keep and help deliver their

trapped relatives. god answered their prayers, all the miners are alive and looking to guide for grace to endur until men are rescued because they may not see the light of dayuntil christmas. >> reporter: 33 miners feared dead ever since the mine they were worki in collapsed. after 19 days of uncertainty, handwritten notes2,000 feet underground confirming they were still alive. >> happy, happy, happy, we all had hope they were all alive, so the news was wonrful since it was on sunday, a day of god. >> they'll get relief supplies

and notes from loved ones via these capsules. >> we are calling the umbilical cord and start with food and communication with the trapped mine. >> deep concern of what could be a month's long task of rescuing the miners by boring a and pult their trust in the lord as one trapd miner mario wrote to his wife. his wife has kept vigil at the mine and vowed to stay there until he comes out alive and prolss after that her husband will never enter a mine ain. lorri johnson cbn news. coming up, millions of flood victims are without

homes,ithout food and without clean water. now aid agencies racing against time to stop the spread of deadly disease.

irtzu >> flood waters have broken through a levy in southern pakistan and danging 3 more towns. officials are urging those to evacua the area and aid workers are trying to keep disease from displacement camps. 17 million people have been effected by the flooding. world vision has been working in pakistan for decades. my coanchor wendgriffith spoke with mike baily with operations. his workers are witnessing among the victims. >> report: the country what we hear is that is horribly

cold, acute watery diarrhea is on the increase. that is whatis worrying everybody. that is the sort of symptoms you get with cholera. with the conditions we see people living in where they have no real access to clean water and inadequate food and almost no shelter, it is almost inevitle there will be more and more places of diarrhea. we are trying to improve the shelter and improve access to clean wateto people. that is the main thing. it is the main thing in terms of preveion and in terms of cure and preventing illnes getting life sapping. it is essential to keep them drinking. if they are drinking dirty water. they are reinfecting themgss. thels themselves.

>> are they able to get them the water? >> as many as half the people effected that lost their home were forced to leave their homes still haven't been reached with any aid at all. in the south the numbers are much larger than the numbers in pu.n.j and sin. they are still very much smaller than the people in need. >> what impact do you see with the international communities responding to theineeds? >> when they are reached, they are very grateful. we have mments they have been blessed by allah through world vision.

the effect we are worried about is the trauma particularly for children being, taken out of their house in the middleof the night as the water rushes in of being deprived to all their possessions and everything familiar to them, then sitting, just waiting for days on end. this is very traumatic for children. we talked to parents who says their childrenare so scared. if they hear the slightest noise or thunder or sound of storm, they are running around crying out. they run outside the house because they are frightened to be inside. >> our hearts and prayers go out to the people in pakistan. thanks mike baily for joining us. >> you can find links and cbn's

operation blessing at shug shug. cwnews.org. in cambodia, girls are sold into sex slave trade by their parents. one british missiory is providing a way out, stan jeter has that story. >> reporter: the red light district of non vin cambodia, hundreds oyoung women and girls working in the sex trad some were tricked, others placed by their own parents. ruth eliot has been working to set them free. >> ty live in a pit of hell. they expience his orrendous trauma. god called her here for this difficult work wheshe was only 14. >> the lord spoke to me, he wanted me to use my life to

heal the broken hearted and set free the captives. >> elioarrived in cambodia in 2004 and focussed her effort on rescuing them. >> inviting them to change their liveif they are interested in doing that. >> she started daughters of cambodia, day center near the bro they wills to help the girls transition. the first thing they learn is a new way to make iome. >> we had to enable the girls, without another job it is impossible for them to leave the sex industry. >> many of the girls feel responsible to provide for their parents they not only learn new work skills and valuable lessons for

establishing a healthfamily and home. >> domestic violence preventionbudgeting skills, this kind of thing, drug prevention. >> daughters of cambodia market their clothe and home furnishing oversea up to 60 girls at a time participate in the earning money for rent, food and other needs. it takes time to overcome the time working in the sex trade. eliot, a therapist introduces them and otherin the red light district to fai in jesus christ. >> they are welcome in our church program. we want them to come. we want parents to come. we want everyone in the sex industry to come to our church because we believe in the power

of jesus to change everybody's lives. >> that message is having its effect especially amongirls. >> they have never in the life expericed unconditional love and acceptance. they have never had such a message of hope in all their lives and many of them become christians result of thi >> working in this environment is never easy. what eli does could be dangers. >> i have to say we have never, ever, not even one day had any problems, had any turn up at our door wanting a girl back or threening us in any way. we have never had a single threat made against us. i can't explain that to you except i believe the grace of god is on our side. >> her goal is to graduate girls to successfully live on their own and replicate the

daughters of cambodia center in other places. stan jeter cbn news. up next, a nation coming back from a brink of chaos. tell you about the role the church is playing in zimbabwe's resurrection.

>> welcome back tchristian world news. zimbabweused to be one of the most unstable places in africa. polical violence divided the government. the christians are lay tg ground work. >> dignitaries seated foreign diplomats in place, foreign press corp. make final checks. seconds later, from a side door the president, prime minister, heads of cabinent, members of parliament and other high

ranking government officials file in. this is a big moment for zimbabwe, the african nation is launching a 3-montoutreach to get citizens on the writing of a new constition. sitting in the audience is alex chisango he takes one look at his notes, momentlater on stage delivering the opening prayer standingext to the president and prime minister. >> we pray god, out of that product, the sons of daughters of zimbabwe will have a reasons to pray and glorify your neighbor. >> alex is on a missioto mobilize similar zimbabwe and christians. >>less chairman of the african

centeror law and justice, an internatio for law and justic recent a team joined him to discuss the constitution with top government officials. >> they did open the window to be here to be involved in the constitution process. >> writing a new constitution isn't going to be easy. zimbabwe has had its share of economic upheaval. economy is stabilizg and unemplment is at a staggering 90 percent. two political parties that share power in government are often at odds with each other resulting in a nation deeply divided. he is teaming up with local church leaders to lay the foundati for much needed healing and reconciliationin

zimbabwe. my message that gave to christ, they should be called the sons of god. >> this man is a successful christian businessman who owns numerousotel changes throughout africa and networks sharing about the power of forgiveness. >> that is wherthe faith comes in to bring god's healing on a nation. >> latest statisticsshow close to 80 percent of those in this couny call themselves christians. those leading the reconciliation are hoping to use those statistics to help rebuild this nation. >> we are ultimately the answer. >> a sentiment echoed by zimbabwes prime ministerand the american and african centers for law and justice. >> the church playing a very moral role, a leading role.

i think would be a misplacement of prioriti to play the church of a political organization. >> to imam feisal to rid the streets of trash. on a recent saturday morning, dozens of churches and local agencies joinedn the effort. he has been talking to churches about dog more for the clean up of zimbabwe. >> it is not just people going to church, but it is a way of life which must be a deflection of their daily practices. >> zimbabwe prepares to write a new constitution, they are busy playing the spiritual foundations for what th hope

will be a model nation of reconciliation and healing. >> we believe zimbabwe will be a nation that will forve.

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